All my menus (navigation popup action and menu/list form field) are appearing as lists instead of dropdown menus when published. How do I get them to display correctly?
I’ve used them before and they’ve worked perfectly, am i missing something obvious here? I’m using Pro 5 trial, but have tried with my version of Freeway 4 also. Displays identically in Firefox and Safari 3.
As an image, your example is impossible to decode. Would you have a published example to link to so we may perform a postmortem?
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:13 PM, zacbest wrote:
All my menus (navigation popup action and menu/list form field) are appearing as lists instead of dropdown menus when published. How do I get them to display correctly?
I’ve used them before and they’ve worked perfectly, am i missing something obvious here? I’m using Pro 5 trial, but have tried with my version of Freeway 4 also. Displays identically in Firefox and Safari 3.
Okay, thanks to your example I can now see that your original statement didn’t fully register with me. You’re using a form item to try and make a navigation popup button. Somehow I thought you were making a navigation list (as in CSS list) inside a form structure. Well, instead of the long lecture I planned on using appropriate html elements for menus, I suppose I’d better just eat the egg off my face and figure out how to do this.
Using FP5, I inserted the Navigation Popup Action Item and got exactly the same result you did. So I began to pick apart the page code and noticed that the action is writing a size value of “6” to the select element. This value determines the number of items the form select element will reveal. With a size of “1” it reveals only the first item (Option1 in the action) and becomes a popup button. Higher than that will cause the item to appear as a box or scroll box, revealing only the number of items the size attribute will allow. Here is more about the select element:
Adjusting the height of the action box affects the number Freeway gives as the size attribute. Try dragging the bottom of the action box up. In my work window, when I do that the action displays a popup button instead of a box. You can also set the height of the action enclosure in the Inspector. I haven’t tried this in Freeway 4 Pro, but I’d bet it’s similar.
Best wishes
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:13 PM, zacbest wrote:
All my menus (navigation popup action and menu/list form field) are appearing as lists instead of dropdown menus when published. How do I get them to display correctly?
I’ve used them before and they’ve worked perfectly, am i missing something obvious here? I’m using Pro 5 trial, but have tried with my version of Freeway 4 also. Displays identically in Firefox and Safari 3.
it worked perfectly - thanks alot for that, i knew i’d used the navigation popup action sucessfully before and I just couldn’t figure out why it wasnt working this time,
